Loading...

Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body

ISBN: 978-0-631-21608-7

October 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

368 pages

Description
Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex.

  • A remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays by some of the brightest and best of Anglo-American scholars
  • Edited by one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture
  • Reconceptualizes the body and its desires
  • Enlarges the meaningfulness of Christian sexuality for the good of the Church
  • Proposes that bodies are the mobile products of changing discourses and regimes of power.
About the Author
Gerard Loughlin is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. His previous publications include Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology (1996) and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (Blackwell, 2004). He is a co-editor of the Journal Theology and Sexuality.
Features

  • An important work on Christianity and sex that will inform public debate on the subject
  • A remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays by some of the brightest and best of Anglo-American scholars
  • Edited by one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture
  • Reconceptualizes the body and its desires
  • Enlarges the meaningfulness of Christian sexuality for the good of the Church
  • Proposes that bodies are the mobile products of changing discourses and regimes of power.